Joel Plotnek

Jesus revolutionary, redemptive entrepreneur, leader in church property & finance, cultural philosopher, muso & writer, advocate for God's economy in our world!

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

I’m in a study group exploring the Sermon on the Mount and someone brought up this quote by Robin Meyers. What do you think?

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Sacred Cash Cows and the Prophets of Baal – Part I https://t.co/Vv7kvIVLKF

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Trump’s False Prophets III: Discerning the prophetic voice in Australia https://t.co/ns6QKsOSFP

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Trump’s False Prophets II: This is not America https://t.co/VWGZ711whM

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Does a false prophecy make a false prophet? There were many prophecies in 2020 that Donald Trump would win re-election. Can the church still recognise a prophetic voice within its ranks and if so, how do we discern our prophets' messages? https://t.co/3dUJugAjb4

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This Australia Day raises more questions on our identity. Covid has revealed cracks in our Federation as the States withdraw to colonial borders. Why the paranoia of alien invasion and contagions? What past trauma might have possesed us? https://t.co/TfZYuCih8T

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Is It A Wonderful Life? Why we make New Year resolutions https://t.co/Wy2Gcgk9HR

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Is Apple TV's Ted Lasso a Christ figure that inspires us to live like Jesus? Or does he represent a Christless Christianity that sells us God's kingdom without the king? Did Ted Lasso do what Jesus would do this Christmas? https://t.co/uGtsKWUPhi

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Yesterday's heroes were the cowboy and rock star. Today's hero is the entrepeneur. Our heroes tell us who we are in the age we live. But can they interpret Christian life and mission? Are apostles also entrepeneurs? https://t.co/r0BGYzgvXA

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Can mony buy us love? Or make us happy? The Sixties revolution promised love and peace but then sold out to the market. The hippies grew up into boomer yuppies. Their children defined by demographics and brands. Can we still find love without money? https://t.co/bf0tC4ySaQ

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We are all children of the 60s, even millenials. A lot happened then that shapes our world now. But the decade that opened with the promise of liberation and peace ended with riots and body bags returning from Vietnam. What happened to the revolution? https://t.co/u2a3lFCP3a

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Do accidents just happen? Or do we encourage bad driving by designing cars where we do less of the driving? Have we hard wired a consumer ethic into our automated technologies of distraction in our quest for freedom? https://t.co/S6GF057PkD

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Church authority has devolved from the Pope in Rome to the Protestant clergy industry. The increased fragmentation of denominations in a post Covid church will precipitate a further crisis in church leadership and denominational authority. https://t.co/rTHBsGRu5H

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It's not just churches that are dying. Covid will hit church denominations as we emerge into a new post Covid world. Increased volatility will disrupt denominational structures throwing up new challenges for church leaders. https://t.co/c30R24d4Do

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What will the post Covid church look like? Emerging trends indicate we will see a divestment of property as church fragments and reconfigures across hybrid networks. https://t.co/qnXZEdQNh2

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Working from home in Covid lockdown has seen an increase in work productivity. It seems harder than ever to rest when you can't even take a holiday away in lockdown! Have we forgotten the meaning of Sabbath? https://t.co/IZRzJAwTAh

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The Divided Church:  Overcoming the politics of fear https://t.co/NykUMACTO2

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Where were you when you heard the news on September 11? And where are we 20 years later? We have seen the rise of the politics of tribes and rights. And the demand of the people for the return of a king. But which king will save us now? https://t.co/0ywIiuTh0k

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The Matrix has been analysed to death but life in COVID lock down is a good time to re-visit this cyberpunk, sci-fi retelling of apocalypse and ask the question - is there still hope? https://t.co/fDJG4k3uqJ

[Andrew McGowan @Praxeas]

The almost standard "bad take" on the Syrophoenician woman story ...ignores Mark's Jesus to produce one who performs in a way that suits us..Tthe answer to ethnic chauvinism here is not personal growth through conversation, but about the defeat of evil https://t.co/2wKMjo6py7